Eventually the IRS would garnish a person’s wages, yes? For someone self employed, that wouldn’t exactly be a viable option I suppose. They could put a hold on someone’s bank accounts and whatnot if garnishment isn’t possible.

You’d need to transition to a cash based lifestyle to circumvent this. Difficult to do in today’s world.

I see what you’re getting at, but we have differing views as to what constitutes ‘evil’. Cyanide isn’t evil because it can kill a person, just as an oven isn’t evil when it burns the roast dinner.

Without possession of a level of consciousness akin to ours, good and evil aren’t really possible. An inanimate object can’t make a decision to produce a negative outcome - nor a positive one for that matter. They can only be used by us to bring about an outcome. LLM’s have been built to be ingratiating and as a result they are addictive to an extent for those that use them.

ChatGPT’s fundamental design was crafted by humans, under instruction by humans, under leadership by Musk and Altman. They carry a good part of the responsibility and blame for that kid’s death. The machine was only doing what it was created for - just as the rope was.

The word ‘fault’ is commonly used interchangeably with ‘responsible’. Following your described definition, I agree that LLM’s are faulty, and they can be at ‘fault’.

I invoked the ethical dilemma as it’s almost universally understood that it’s a scenario forcing an individual to make a decision. I’ve never before heard someone blame the trolley. The brakes are broken? Come now, if we’re going to be so semantic about it, a human should have regularly inspected the brakes and subsequently had them repaired.

I appreciate your explanation of your viewpoint. Cheers.

Machines are capable of what their design parameters allow or can be manipulated by a user to a accomplish. In the trolley problem, any outcome is not the fault of the trolley itself.

Funny as the mosquito example is, they aren’t evil. Just as wolves aren’t evil for hunting deer. Animals may not possess consciousness as you or I, they are alive and are driven by biological necessity. Machines on the other hand, aren’t.

Interesting perspective. I’m on board with blaming the creators, but I’m leaning away from blaming ChatGPT itself as it is just a machine.

A machine used incorrectly, to be sure, and we’d be better off without it certainly, but the machine carries no fault its existence. It isn’t conscious after all, it’s akin to a T85 inside a vending machine.

This makes me wonder if the legal definition of ‘custody’ in Japan is similar to what might be referred to as ‘primary custodian’ in other places. I’m assuming that children of divorced parents still spend time with both.

If that’s not the case, now that the family court is reviewing these old arrangements, I wonder what the impact would be of shared custody for a child that hasn’t had any interaction with one of its parents for several years.

Only ChatGPT, or also its creators?

The Egg, by Andy Weir.

It’s also on YouTube in various forms. Kurzgesagt, for example, has a version in their animation style.

a prorate fee will be billed to reactivate

To my reading, both ‘fee’ and ‘billed’ indicate the customer will be charged an amount to regain access. If it were as you suggest, I think it would have been worded differently, to provide more benefit to the customer. Maybe something along the lines of:

‘When you are ready to come back, your membership reactivation will be prorated to reflect freeze term payments.’

As it is, I can see both interpretations. Which might be on purpose to surprise people who turn up at the gym after a few months break, banking on an eye roll and the fee to be paid so they can get on with their workout.

Am I reading this right that to reactivate they’d be charging the difference they ‘lost’ during the freeze term? Wild.

Oh thanks for that link. Goes on a lot about a King, less about a Queen.

Anyway not entirely sure how it’s related to my initial comment in this thread, unless the connection being made is the British Empire being marginally similar to the European Union in that it is a collection of countries that may or may not be geographical neighbours? I think the whole bit about one of those collections being voluntary and the other… less so.

But I appreciate the contribution all the same, I’ll put it in the guest room.

Ta-ta

A gift of a link is nicer than an instruction to perform a task, regardless of whatever connection you’re trying to make.

I wish I could live in the world where waste isn’t moved around the world for processing. Or if it were, it would be from poorer nations to wealthier ones, not the other way around.

I’ll pass but thanks, Santa!

I’m no expert but given the trade between the two nations, I don’t think a currency change would do a whole lot to provide insulation from economic bullying the United States is capable of.

Maybe Canada could build a moat haha.

Call me a rube but I’m more of a mainland enthusiast myself. Don’t pay much mind to uninhabited islands that are closer in size to Vatican City than Tuvalu.

Interesting fact, though capital city to capital city, Canada is an order of magnitude further from France than it is to England.

That’s an interesting detail I didn’t know. With this new knowledge I choose to live in the timeline where Canada puts a loonie on the back of the euro coin haha.

Sure does feel weird to think about a country not on the European continent becoming part of the European Union. Also, loosing the looney and the toonie from Canada’s currency would be a global tragedy.